Thank you for the reply and the link,
re: that your DB size will very common not be a problem
Well with the CORE new install and using the supplied my.ini only 1,159,168 KB of data went before it stopped and not really sure why.
I am now going to try using my-huge-ini again, as before I tried importing it I feel was doing well.
Also, I have set > #innodb_data_home_dir = C:\\mysql\\data\\
to: #innodb_data_home_dir = E:\\xampp\\mysql\\data\\
As well as: #innodb_log_group_home_dir = C:\\mysql\\data\\
to> #innodb_log_group_home_dir = E:\\xampp\\mysql\\data\\
As my xampp resides on USB
I will hopefully just have to truncate tables; and try again.
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UPDATE huge or large Will not start after uncommenting for use of innoDB
131231 7:12:38 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
131231 7:12:39 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
131231 7:12:39 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
131231 7:12:39 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
131231 7:12:40 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 384.0M
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: data file E:\xampp\mysql\data\ibdata1 is of a different size
InnoDB: 1152 pages (rounded down to MB)
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 128000 pages!
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: Could not open or create data files.
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: If you tried to add new data files, and it failed here,
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: you should now edit innodb_data_file_path in my.cnf back
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: to what it was, and remove the new ibdata files InnoDB created
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: in this failed attempt. InnoDB only wrote those files full of
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: zeros, but did not yet use them in any way. But be careful: do not
131231 7:12:41 InnoDB: remove old data files which contain your precious data!
131231 7:12:41 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
131231 7:12:41 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
131231 7:12:41 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
131231 7:12:41 [ERROR] Aborting
131231 7:12:42 [Note] E:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete
131231 7:21:13 [Note] Plugin 'FEDERATED' is disabled.
131231 7:21:13 InnoDB: The InnoDB memory heap is disabled
131231 7:21:13 InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
131231 7:21:13 InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.3
131231 7:21:14 InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, size = 256.0M
131231 7:21:14 InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
InnoDB: Error: log file E:\xampp\mysql\data\ib_logfile0 is of different size 0 5242880 bytes
InnoDB: than specified in the .cnf file 0 67108864 bytes!
131231 7:21:14 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' init function returned error.
131231 7:21:14 [ERROR] Plugin 'InnoDB' registration as a STORAGE ENGINE failed.
131231 7:21:14 [ERROR] Unknown/unsupported storage engine: InnoDB
131231 7:21:14 [ERROR] Aborting
131231 7:21:14 [Note] E:\xampp\mysql\bin\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete
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For others and for reference, one may find this article handy:
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/mysqlperformance.htm